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Today’s Clips Contents

FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (Page 3)

Angels fall to Rays, 4-2

Kyle Kubitza has an uneven big league debut in Angels' 4-2 loss to Rays

Final day of draft has a familiar ring for Angels and GM Jerry Dipoto

FROM THE OC REGISTER (Page 6)

Mental mistakes ruin Kyle Kubitza's debut in Angels' loss to Rays Up-and-down outing for Angels' Jered Weaver against Rays

On deck: Angels at Rays, Thursday, 4 p.m.

Final: Mistakes by Kyle Kubitza in debut costly in Angels' 4-2 loss to Rays Angels pick Jerry Dipoto's son in final day of draft

Injury opens door for prospect Kyle Kubitza to make Angels debut

FROM ANGELS.COM (Page 11)

Angels’ close to balanced foundation' after Draft

Angels fall as lineup languishes vs. Rays’ pen

Brother of Trout's girlfriend drafted by Angels

Richards eyes rebound, series win in Rays finale

Angels draft GM Dipoto's son in 38th round

FROM YAHOO SPORTS (Page 17)

Angels-Rays Preview

Angels draft Aaron Cox, the brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend

FROM FOX SPORTS (Page 20)

Angels draft brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend in 19th round of MLB Draft

Trout has no complaints about seven Royals being on-track for All-Star nods

Freese doesn't think tight hamstring will warrant D.L. stint FROM USA TODAY SPORTS (Page 21)

Los Angeles Angels draft younger brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Page 22)

Angels Recall Kubitza From Triple-A, Cut Nieuwenhuis

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FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Angels fall to Rays, 4-2

BY MIKE DIGIOVANNA KEY MOMENT: In a matchup of former Long Beach State standouts, Rays third baseman Evan Longoria crushed a home run to left-center field off Angels right-hander Jered Weaver to lead off the third inning. Longoria's sixth homer of the season gave Tampa Bay a 3-2 lead. AT THE PLATE: The Angels threatened off Rays reliever Kevin Jepsen in the seventh when Kyle Kubitza singled and Johnny Giavotella walked with two outs. But Erick Aybar, who singled in a run in the third and lined into a double play in the fifth, grounded out to second. The Rays added an insurance run in the eighth on back-to-back doubles by Steven Souza and Asdrubal Cabrera. ON THE MOUND: Weaver (4-6) allowed four runs and eight hits in 7 2/3 innings, walking three and striking out one. Rays starter Erasmo Ramirez (5-2) allowed two runs and five hits in five innings to earn the win, and relievers Steve Geltz, Jepsen, Brad Boxberger and Jake McGee combined for four scoreless innings. FREESE UPDATE: Third baseman David Freese, pulled in the seventh inning Tuesday because of a tight right hamstring, did not start Wednesday but pinch-hit in the ninth, striking out to end the game. He does not appear headed to the disabled list. "Right now, it looks like something that's very manageable," Manager Mike Scioscia said. ALL IN THE FAMILY: The Angels picked Newport Harbor High School pitcher Jonah Dipoto, son of General Manager Jerry Dipoto, in the 38th round Wednesday. "He's probably going to be unsignable," scouting director Ric Wilson said, and he wasn't really joking. Jerry Dipoto said his son will play next year at UC San Diego. "I was a bit uncomfortable at first, but will admit to having been thrilled to hear his name called," Dipoto said. … The Angels picked Gannon (Penn.) University right-hander Aaron Cox, the brother of center fielder Mike Trout's long-time girlfriend, Jessica Cox, in the 19th round. EXTRA BASES: To make room for Kubitza, outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis, who hit .136 in 10 games, was designated for assignment. UP NEXT: Right-hander Garrett Richards (5-4, 4.14 ERA) will oppose Tampa Bay right-hander Alex Colome (3-2, 4.54) at Tropicana Field on Thursday at 4 p.m. PDT. TV: FS West; Radio: 830.

Kyle Kubitza has an uneven big league debut in Angels' 4-2 loss to Rays BY MIKE DIGIOVANNA It was an eventful major league debut for third baseman Kyle Kubitza, who cost the Angels a run with a mental error in the field, may have cost another run with a baserunning blunder and smoked a line drive into center field for his first major league hit Wednesday night.

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And that was all in the first 2 1/2 innings of the Angels' 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in Tropicana Field.

"Kyle will bounce back," Manager Mike Scioscia said. "This guy has a chance to be a really good player. It's his first game in the big leagues. There's always little things you do that you learn from, and he had a couple of those tonight."

Kubitza, called up Wednesday from triple-A to replace the injured David Freese, said he was nervous.

"You grow up watching these games; hopefully I can calm down enough to put some good swings on some balls," Kubitza said before the game. "First impressions are always the greatest. Hopefully, I can play my game and not try to do too much."

Kubitza looked good at the plate, getting a seventh-inning single to right field to go with his third-inning hit, but there was a rough-around-the-edges feel to the rest of his game.

With two runners on and two outs in the second inning, Tampa Bay's Kevin Kiermaier hit a run-scoring single to right field. Nick Franklin advanced to third base on the hit and Kiermaier to second on the throw.

Joey Butler followed with a hard grounder that Kubitza grabbed with a nice backhand stab. But instead of throwing across the diamond for the out, Kubitza tried to tag Kiermaier, who had run to within a few feet of Kubitza before retreating to second base.

By the time Kubitza threw to second baseman Johnny Giavotella, who tagged out Kiermaier, Franklin crossed the plate. Because there was no force, Franklin's run counted and gave the Rays a 2-0 lead.

"I threw it to second and just thought to myself, 'I don't know what I'm doing,' " said Kubitza, who was acquired from Atlanta in the off-season and tabbed as Freese's heir apparent in 2016. "I should have thrown to first. It was a bad baseball play."

Even if the runner is close enough to tag, third basemen are taught to always throw to first on that play.

"It's Baseball 101," Scioscia said. "Second and third, the ball is hit to you, you know you have to get the out at first."

C.J. Cron led off the third inning with a single and Kubitza followed with a sharp single to center field. Giavotella flied to deep center, advancing Cron to third base.

Erick Aybar singled to right field to drive in Cron and Kubitza flew around second base with the intention of reaching third. But Kubitza saw a stop sign from third base coach Gary DiSarcina, jammed on the breaks, stumbled on his head-first dive into second base and was tagged out as Aybar pulled into the base.

"I got a little overaggressive and tried to make a play," Kubitza said. "I got caught in no-man's land."

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It was the 27th out on the bases, not including caught stealing or pickoffs, this season for the Angels, tied for second-most in the American League.

Mike Trout followed with a run-scoring single to right field to tie the score, 2-2, and Albert Pujols was hit by a pitch, but Kole Calhoun grounded out to end the inning.

"A couple things got away from him tonight, but we'll take the positives," Scioscia said of Kubitza. "He swung the bat OK, he got two hits. Hopefully, he'll be a little more relaxed tomorrow."

Final day of draft has a familiar ring for Angels and GM Jerry Dipoto BY MIKE DIGIOVANNA There was one very familiar name among the 30 picks the Angels made on the final day of the draft Wednesday: Jonah Dipoto, a right-handed pitcher from Newport Harbor High and the son of Angels General Manager Jerry Dipoto, was selected in the 38th round. “He’s probably going to be unsignable,” Angels scouting director Ric Wilson said in what sounded like a joke but really wasn’t. While Jonah played for several scout teams this past year, including the Angels' elite club, Jerry Dipoto said his son intends to enroll in the fall at UC San Diego, where Jonah will play baseball. “Willy and [scout] Rob Wilfong made the pick,” said Jerry Dipoto, a former big league reliever. “I was not aware until late today, when they told me what they intended to do. I was a bit uncomfortable at first, but will admit to having been thrilled to hear his name called.” Wilson said he was thinking about drafting Jonah Dipoto for several weeks. “I love the way the kid is progressing and just wanted to encourage him,” Wilson said. “It was well-deserved, a good moment. Jerry didn’t know what I was going to do, and when I ran it by him, it was great. It was emotional. A nice moment.” The Angels also used their 19th-round pick on Gannon (Penn.) University right-hander Aaron Cox, who is the brother of center fielder Mike Trout’s long-time girlfriend, Jessica Tara Cox. Cox also played at Millville High in New Jersey, Trout’s alma mater. Angels use top pick on defensive catcher Taylor Ward of Fresno State Angels use top pick on defensive catcher Taylor Ward of Fresno State After putting a heavy emphasis on pitchers in the 2013 and 2014 drafts, the Angels focused on position players this year, picking 25 position players and 15 pitchers. Of their 40 picks, only five were high school players; the rest were from four-year colleges or community colleges. Twenty-two of the college players, including 15 of the college position players, were seniors. “There was a strategy to it,” Wilson said. “People kind of looked cross-eyed at us, but there was definitely a plan to it. We thought we’d go after a ton of position players, which is what the draft was

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deepest in. For sure, we're getting very close to a balanced foundation” of pitchers and position players in the farm system. One player Wilson was particularly excited about was Jimmy Barnes, a 6-foot-4, 190-pound outfielder from Deep Creek High in Chesapeake, Va., who was taken in the 11th round. “The upside of this kid is amazing,” Wilson said. “His athleticism, raw strength and power, is very intriguing.” The Angels’ first-round pick, Fresno State catcher Taylor Ward, was in Tropicana Field before Wednesday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays and met several Angels players, including Trout and Albert Pujols, and Manager Mike Scioscia. “It’s crazy,” said Ward, the 26th overall selection in the draft. “It’s probably crazier than the phone call” from the Angels after he was picked. “Seeing these guys on the field taking batting practice, it’s something you really want to work for.”

FROM THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Mental mistakes ruin Kyle Kubitza's debut in Angels' loss to Rays

BY JEFF FLETCHER

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Maybe someday, perhaps after he’s had a long and successful major league career, Kyle Kubitza will be able to look back fondly on what should have been one of the best days of his life. Major league debut. Two hits. But as he sat slumped in a chair in a silent clubhouse following the Angels’ 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, he was in no mood to celebrate. Although there is certainly blame to go around on a night the Angels managed just seven hits, Kubitza had two of the most critical mistakes, both of them mental. A defensive lapse directly cost the Angels a run, and two baserunning errors limited the Angels’ only rally of the night. “It’s his first game in the big leagues; there’s always little things you do that you learn from, and he had a couple of those tonight,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. Kubitza, the player the Angels acquired from the Atlanta Braves last winter with the idea of making him their everyday third baseman in 2016, got a chance a little early because of David Freese’s tight hamstring. After getting the call on Tuesday night in Salt Lake City, he was in the Angels lineup on Wednesday, playing third and batting eighth. He was understandably excited before the game, talking about family coming from around the country to see him.

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In his second inning in the field, with runners at second and third and two outs, the ball found him. It was a routine grounder. Kubitza fielded it cleanly, took a step to throw to first, but then saw Kevin Kiermaier, running from second, just a few feet away. As soon as he stopped to try to tag Kiermaier, and Kiermaier went the other way, forcing him to throw back to second, he knew what he’d done. Because the third out of the inning came on a tag instead of a force, the Rays got a run when Nick Franklin touched the plate before Kiermaier was tagged out. “I threw it to second and just thought to myself ‘I don’t know what I’m doing,’” Kubitza said. “I should have thrown to first. Was a bad baseball play.” Scioscia said: “That’s just a simple game prep. Baseball 101. Second and third, ball hit to you, you know you have to get the out at first.” Moments later, Kubitza stepped to the plate for his first big league at-bat. He ripped a clean single up the middle. Then, however, he failed to tag and go to second on Johnny Giavotella’s fly ball to deep center, even though the Rays had thrown to third to try to get C.J. Cron.

Up-and-down outing for Angels' Jered Weaver against Rays

BY JEFF FLETCHER

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Jered Weaver’s performance on Wednesday night fell somewhere between his outstanding work of the most of the last month and the sloppy outing he had his time out. In fact, it was a little of both in one night. Weaver was charged with four runs in 7-2/3 innings, but that included a stretch in which he retired 15 of 18 hitters. Just before that, he had allowed three runs on four hits and two walks, with Evan Longoria’s third-inning homer snapping a 2-2 tie and giving the Rays a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. “After the third inning, it looked like he was struggling to get pitches into good zones, then he got on a great roll and pitched deep into the game,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “He got into the eighth inning, gave us chance to win, but we didn’t support him much offensively.” Weaver took a string of five straight quality starts into last Friday’s game, when he gave up three homers and seven runs at Yankee Stadium. “I felt good,” Weaver said on Wednesday. “I just trying to throw the ball and get some outs, battle, try to keep us in it. Came up short.”

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On deck: Angels at Rays, Thursday, 4 p.m.

BY JEFF FLETCHER

Where: Tropicana Field TV: Fox Sports West, 4 p.m. Did you know: Mike Trout and Albert Pujols are the only teammates to be in their league’s top five in homers. Each have 16. THE PITCHERS RHP GARRETT RICHARDS (5-4, 4.14) Richards has a 7.91 ERA over his past four starts, including an outing in which he gave up five runs and recorded just two outs last time out in New York. Richards had a similar outing last May in Oakland, and he rebounded from that to have a 1.25 ERA in his next nine starts. Walks have been Richards’ biggest issue this year. He’s walked 4.0 batters per nine innings, compared with 2.7 last year. Vs. Rays: 2-1, 5.02 At Tropicana Field: 0-1, 10.80 RHP ALEX COLOME (3-2, 4.54) Jake Odorizzi was supposed to start, but the Rays placed him on the disabled list and moved up Colome. Colome gave up one run in six innings in his last outing. When he faced the Angels for the only time his his career, last week in Anaheim, they scored five runs and had nine hits in six innings against him. vs. Angels: 0-1, 7.50 At Tropicana Field: 2-2, 4.63

Final: Mistakes by Kyle Kubitza in debut costly in Angels' 4-2 loss to Rays

BY JEFF FLETCHER

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Kyle Kubitza’s major league debut was certainly eventful.

The Angels third baseman was recalled on Wednesday because of David Freese’s tight hamstring, and

he made a pair of mistakes that wound up being costly in the Angels’ 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.

The first ground ball that came to him was with two outs in the second inning, and runners at second

and third. Kubitza fielded it cleanly and then hesitated throwing to first before instead starting to chase

Kevin Kiermaier back to second. He threw to second to retire the Kiermaier. Because the third out was

on a tag, and not a force, and because Nick Franklin touched the plate before the out, the Rays got the

run.

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In the third inning, Kubitza singled in his first big league at-bat. He then tried to go to third on Erick

Aybar’s single to right, even though third base coach Gary DiSarcina was stopping him at second.

Kubitza was caught between the bases and tagged out.

Mike Trout followed with a single that scored Aybar, who went to second while Kubitza was in the

rundown, but the out may have prevented a bigger inning.

Instead, the Angels did not get another run.

The Rays, who had been gifted the second-inning run, snapped a 2-2 tie on Evan Longoria’s homer

against Jered Weaver in the third.

Weaver bounced back from allowing seven runs in his last start, in New York. He had allowed only

three runs in seven innings, but then a fourth run was charged to him after he left with two outs in the

eighth.

The Angels have lost four of five games on this trip, and six of the past seven overall.

Angels pick Jerry Dipoto's son in final day of draft BY JEFF FLETCHER ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The most interesting pick the Angels made in the third and final day of the draft on Wednesday was an Orange County high school pitcher they have no intention to sign. Jonah Dipoto, the son of Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto, was taken with the team’s 38th -round pick. The younger Dipoto, a right-hander at Newport Harbor High, had a good enough senior year that Angels scouting director Ric Wilson wanted to draft him to make a point. Dipoto said his son is going to play at UC San Diego. “I love the way the kid is progressing and I just wanted to encourage him,” Wilson said. “It’s a well deserved deal. It’s a good moment.” Dipoto said it was a “very cool moment for the entire family.” Besides that somewhat symbolic pick, the Angels finished the 40-round draft by taking 30 more players on Wednesday. When it was over, the Angels had a total of 35 college players. They took 25 position players and 15 pitchers. “In the past three years pitching was our No. 1 goal to get stabilized,” Wilson said. “We knew it would take a couple years. This year we thought we’d go after a ton of position players, which is what we thought the draft was deepest in.”

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The Angels also picked right-hander Aaron Cox, out of Gannon University in Pennsylvania, with their 19th-round pick. Cox is the brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend, Jessica. Meanwhile, first-round pick Taylor Ward, a catcher from Fresno State, visited with the Angels during batting practice at Tropicana Field. Ward, whose parents live in Florida, met Albert Pujols and Mike Trout. "It's crazy," Ward said. "Probably crazier than the phone call (after being drafted on Monday). Seeing these guys on the field taking BP, it’s something you really want to work for." Ward said he was also looking forward to talking to Manager Mike Scioscia, a former major league catcher, for advice on reaching the majors. Ward seems intent on signing quickly. He said he's "excited to get to Orem with the team there." The Angels have until July 17 to sign him. The suggested slot value for the No. 26 pick is $2,034,500.

Injury opens door for prospect Kyle Kubitza to make Angels debut BY JEFF FLETCHER ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – For a player in Triple-A, the future is always just a tight hamstring and a phone call away. That’s what happened to Kyle Kubitza, the Angels projected 2016 third baseman. Expected to spend the season at Triple-A, Kubitza got a call at 8 p.m. Salt Lake City time on Tuesday that he’d been promoted to the majors because of David Freese’s tight hamstring. “It’s surreal at times,” Kubitza said as he stood in the clubhouse before starting his first major league game on Wednesday. “I’m calling my family, letting them know, and the first time I said it, they were like ‘Are you serious?’” Freese, who had been battling hamstring issues for a few days, is considered day to day, so Kubitza’s time in the majors could be short. In the meantime, the Angels will get a look at a player they acquired last winter with the hope of him becoming their everyday third baseman in 2016. “Obviously, long range the expectation is he will be a terrific major league third baseman,” Manager Mike Scioscia said. “He has all the tools. Short term he will bring good defense and we’ll see if he can get comfortable in the batters box and contribute there. He’s a very talented player that obviously we’re very high on. We’ll get our first look at him while David is down.” Kubitza, 24, is considered a good defensive third baseman, even though he showed some difficulty at times in spring training. “Arizona infields sometimes have a mind of their own,” Scioscia said. “He showed very well in drills. He has good hands. Has a terrific arm. We have a lot of confidence he’ll make the plays.”

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A left-handed hitter, Kubitza was hitting .287 with three homers and a .362 on-base percentage at Salt Lake City. He had hit just .208 in June, though. One of the knocks on Kubitza is that he doesn’t have the power teams normally prefer from their corner infielders, but he said he’s not concerned with that. Homers “will come,” Kubitza said. “If I keep putting good swings on balls and hitting doubles, they should find their way out.”

FROM ANGELS.COM

Angels’ close to balanced foundation' after Draft

BY ALDEN GONZALEZ / MLB.OM ANAHEIM -- The Angels entered the 2015 Draft in search of bats, then selected a position player with 25 of their 40 picks over the last three days, a drastic, necessary change in philosophy after back-to-back pitcher-heavy Drafts. The Angels drafted a pitcher with 10 of their first 11 picks in 2013 and each of their first five in 2014. In 2015, eight of their first nine picks and 12 of their first 14 were position players. They finished Day 3 by selecting a college senior with 13 of their final 28 selections. Now, Angels scouting director Ric Wilson said, "We're getting very close to a balanced foundation." The farm system was in need of a major replenishment around the time Jerry Dipoto took over as general manager after the 2011 season, and the Angels wanted to stabilize it first with pitching, because it's the more valuable commodity and it generally takes a little longer to develop. This was the year they could finally address the other half. "We laid down a strong foundation of pitching over the last couple years, and these last three days we hit it hard on the positions," Dipoto said. "I really feel strongly about the group we put together." The Angels mostly played it safe, as usual, drafting eight teenagers and 22 college seniors. But they like some of the high-upside potential they acquired from the high-school ranks, too. Like second-round pick Jahmai Jones, a center fielder with a football background and great athleticism. Or 11th-round pick Jimmy Barnes, a power hitter whom Dipoto called "a cross between Jermaine Dye and Chris Carter." Or 12th-round pick Dalton Blumenfield, a catcher who's 6-foot-3 and 210 pounds. Or 17th-round pick Samuel Pastrone, a right-hander who's up to 97 mph with his fastball. The Angels turned heads by drafting the son of Jamie Moyer (Pepperdine University second baseman Hutton Moyer), the brother of Mike Trout's longtime girlfriend (Gannon University right-hander Aaron Cox) and the son of Dipoto himself (Newport High right-hander Jonah Dipoto).

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The Angels select second baseman Hutton Moyer, son of former MLB pitcher Jamie Moyer, with the 225th pick of the 2015 MLB Draft They were also criticized for using their first-round pick on Taylor Ward, the Fresno State catcher they had ranked a lot higher than most others. "Doing some of the stuff we did early opened us up to do some of the things we did from [rounds] 11 to 15," Wilson said. "There was a strategy to it. People sort of look at us cross-eyed when we do things, but there was definitely a plan to it. In time, it'll all show itself."

Angels fall as lineup languishes vs. Rays 'pen By MICHAEL KOLLIGIAN AND TROY PROVOST-HERON/MLB.COM ST. PETERSBURG -- Third baseman Evan Longoria delivered a go-ahead home run in the third and the Rays bullpen preserved that lead by shutting down the Angels' lineup over the four final innings to take Game 2 of the series, 4-2, on Wednesday at Tropicana Field. The Rays got on the board first with two runs in the second, but the Angels rallied to tie things back up in the top of the third after Erick Aybar and Mike Trout provided back-to-back RBI singles. Longoria quickly put the Rays back ahead when he sent the first pitch of the bottom half of the third over the fence in left field. Asdrubal Cabrera tacked on an insurance run in the eighth with a two-out, ground-rule double that scored Steven Souza, who reached on a double the at-bat before. "Nice bounce-back win," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "It's nice to get some early runs, especially against a guy like that [Jered Weaver] who's extremely difficult to square up, he mixes his pitches probably as good as anybody in baseball and kept us off balance. "A lot of mis-hits, but Longo's home run and those runs before Longo's home run were big." Erasmo Ramirez pitched five innings for the Rays, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out three, and then turned it over to the bullpen who closed out the final four frames while only allowing two hits. Weaver allowed four runs on eight hits in 7 2/3 innings. 6/10/15: Kevin Kiermaier discusses his performance and the Rays' 4-2 victory over the Angels MOMENTS THAT MATTERED Quick bounce back: The Rays were able to jump out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning thanks to an RBI single by Kevin Kiermaier and a two-out fielder's choice by Joey Butler that resulted in Nick Franklin scoring from third, but the Angels knotted things right back up with a two-run top of the third. On the first pitch of the bottom half, though, Longoria put the Rays right back on top with a solo blast -- his sixth home run of the season -- to left field. Longoria had been held out of the lineup for three consecutive games thanks to a sore left wrist, but the third baseman showed no ill-effects Wednesday. "Nothing usually hurts when you hit a home run," Longoria said. "It felt pretty good after that."

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6/10/15: Kevin Kiermaier grounds an RBI single to right to drive in Asdrubal Cabrera, then advances to second on the throw Rookie responds: Promising Angels' third base prospect Kyle Kubitza, who was recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake earlier in the day to fill in for an ailing David Freese (hamstring), wasted little time making his presence felt, lining a third-inning Ramirez fastball to center for a base hit in his first Major League at-bat. Kubitza would add a single to right in the seventh to finish 2-for-3 on the night. 6/10/15: Kyle Kubitza lines a single up the middle off Erasmo Ramirez for his first Major League hit "He swung the bat OK, he got two hits. This guy has a chance to be a real good player," said Angels manager Mike Scioscia. Shut it down: The Rays were only clinging to one-run lead, but on Wednesday their bullpen made that minor advantage look insurmountable. Starting their work in the sixth, the combination of Steve Geltz, Kevin Jepsen, Brad Boxberger and Jake McGee combined to allow just two hits. The only real threat came in the seventh after Jepsen allowed a two-out single to Kubitza and then walked Johnny Giavotella, but he forced Aybar to ground out to second to end the inning. Boxberger tossed a perfect eighth against the 2-3-4 hitters in the Angels lineup -- Trout, Albert Pujols and Kole Calhoun -- and the McGee picked up his first save of the season. "It lined up kind of how you'd like to draw it up," Cash said. "It doesn't always work out that way, but it did tonight ... If we have a chance to win, we are going to go to those guys." 6/10/15: Jake McGee strikes out pinch-hitter David Freese to record his first save of the season and secure a 4-2 win for the Rays Aybar stays hot: With a third-inning RBI single that plated C.J. Cron with the Angels' first run, Aybar has now hit safely in 25 of his last 28 games with a .321 batting average (42 for 131). "Right now, I feel good. I'm seeing the ball well, picking up the spin, trying to go the other way. I'm very comfortable at the plate, in the leadoff spot, but wherever the manager puts me, I'll be happy," Aybar said. 6/10/15: Erick Aybar grounds an RBI single to right, scoring C.J. Cron and advancing to second on a throw that gets Kyle Kubitza With runners on first and second and one out in the first inning, David DeJesus hit a soft liner that Aybar snared and flipped to second baseman Johnny Giavotella for an apparent, inning-ending double play. Cash challenged umpire Mike Estabrook's ruling, arguing that Giavotella's foot was off the bag. After review, the call was overturned. 6/10/15: Joey Butler is out at second, but after Rays manager Kevin Cash challenges the play, the call is overturned in the 1st inning WHAT'S NEXT Angels: Garrett Richards (5-4, 4.14 ERA) will take the ball on Thursday when the Angels and Rays wrap up their three-game series at Tropicana Field at 4:10 pm PT. The 27-year-old right-hander is coming off

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his poorest start of the season, allowing six earned runs in an 8-2 loss at Yankee Stadium. Richards turned in a quality start against the Rays in his prior outing, allowing three earned runs in six innings in a 7-3 Angels' victory. Rays: Alex Colome (3-2, 4.54 ERA) will make his fifth consecutive start against an AL West opponent, which will tie a club record set by Joe Kennedy back in 2003. In his four prior starts versus the West, the right-hander is 1-1 with a 3.22 ERA, but did take the loss on June 1 against the Angels when he allowed five runs -- off three home runs -- in six innings. He is 2-1 with a 4.22 ERA in four starts at Tropicana Field this season.

Kubitza gets 1st hit, shows jitters in debut BY MICHAEL KOLLIGIAN Highly touted Angels' third base prospect Kyle Kubitza hit the ground running at Tropicana Field in his Major League debut on Wednesday night, collecting two singles -- including a sharp liner to center in his first MLB at-bat -- in the Halos' 4-2 loss to the Rays at Tropicana Field. The left-handed hitting Kubitza, who was recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake after David Freese developed hamstring tightness during Tuesday night's game against the Rays, sandwiched a seventh-inning single to right around a fourth-inning strikeout to finish 2-for-3 on the night before being pinch-hit for by Freese in the ninth against tough southpaw Jake McGee. "Felt great. Good to get those first few out of the way, and hopefully I can keep going," said Kubitza, who hit .287 with three home runs, 21 doubles, four triples and 28 RBIs in 57 games at Salt Lake. "He swung the bat OK, he got two hits. This guy has a chance to be a real good player," said Angels' manager Mike Scioscia of the 24-year-old infielder. Freese, whose status remains day to day, according to Scioscia, struck out looking to end the game. Kubitza's first taste of the big leagues proved to be bittersweet, however, as he experienced some rookie jitters in the field and on the basepaths. With two out in the second inning and runners on second and third, Kubitza fielded a Joey Butler grounder cleanly but elected to throw out Kevin Kiermaier at second after a rundown instead of taking the forceout at first, allowing Nick Franklin to score from third with the Rays' second run of the night. "I threw it to second and then thought to myself 'I don't know what I'm doing.' Should have thrown to first. It was a bad baseball play," Kubitza said. After reaching base in the third, Kubitza himself became caught in a rundown between second and third -- and was eventually tagged out -- after a run-scoring single by Erick Aybar plated C.J. Cron. 6/10/15: Erick Aybar grounds an RBI single to right, scoring C.J. Cron and advancing to second on a throw that gets Kyle Kubitza

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"He's a good baserunner. He got around the bag and looked like he was coming to third and just lost his footing," Scioscia said. "And on the force play, that's just Baseball 101. When that ball's hit to you, you know you have to get the force out at first base and you really shouldn't be distracted by anything else. "A couple of things got away from him tonight, but we'll take the positives," continued Scoiscia. "Hopefully he'll be a little more relaxed tomorrow." Kubitza was acquired by the Angels in an offseason deal that sent Lefty Ricardo Sanchez to Atlanta, and is projected as the 2016 replacement for Freese, who is signed through 2015. Michael Kolligian is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

Brother of Trout's girlfriend drafted by Angels BY ALDEN GONZALEZ/ MLB.COM ANAHEIM -- Roy Hallenbeck has been running the baseball program at Millville High School in South Jersey for 17 years now, and in that time, two of his former players have been selected in the Draft. The first was Mike Trout, the superstar center fielder and consensus best all-around player in the game. The second was pitcher, first baseman and outfielder Aaron Cox, who just so happens to be the brother of Trout's longtime girlfriend, Jessica Cox, and who also just so happened to be taken by the Angels in the 19th round on Wednesday morning. "When I heard it was the Angels, that was crazy," Hallenbeck said. "We had heard some other teams that were interested in him, but I hadn't heard the Angels yet, so that's really exciting." Trout has been dating Cox's sister since Trout's sophomore year of high school and the two, Hallenbeck said, are "like family, for lack of a better word." They go on hunting and fishing trips together during the winter, and Aaron occasionally works out with Trout, who's actually only three years older. In 2011, Cox was the winning pitcher in Millville High School's first and only South Jersey title. In 2012, Cox became the first player to be awarded Trout's former No. 1 jersey. Millville High was initially going to retire Trout's number, but Trout preferred to give it to the team captain each season. "It never really seemed that odd to me, just because that's the way I've always kind of known the situation," Hallenbeck said of the unique situation. "But I guess from an outside perspective, it is kind of strange." Cox just completed his junior year at Gannon University, in Pennsylvania, and is listed at 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds. At the plate, he batted .316/.389/.624 with eight homers and 32 RBIs in 44 games. On the mound, Cox went 5-5 with a 3.74 ERA in 10 starts, striking out 81 batters and walking 15 in 65 innings. The Angels listed him as a right-handed pitcher, which indicates they're going to try him out as a starter.

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Hallenbeck called Cox "a little bit of a late bloomer" in high school and has seen him grow into his body since he graduated high school three years ago. "I mean he just looks fantastic, and he just continues to mature physically," said Hallenbeck, who took over for Jeff Trout, Mike Trout's father, in 1999. "What I'm hearing from scouting reports is that his velocity crept up a little bit, as they expected it would, as he got bigger and stronger and older, but he really developed devastating offspeed stuff to go along with that."

Richards eyes rebound, series win in Rays finale BY MICHAEL KOLLIGIAN Garrett Richards and Alex Colome will square off for the second time this month when the Angels and Rays wrap up their three-game series on Thursday night at Tropicana Field. In their prior matchup on June 1, Richards (5-4, 4.14 ERA) emerged victorious, holding the Rays to three earned runs in six innings at the Big A in a 7-3 Angels' win. While Colome (3-2, 4.54 ERA) also lasted six innings in the contest, the 26-year-old right-hander was hit hard, allowing five earned runs on nine hits, including home runs by David Freese, Mike Trout and Albert Pujols. Three things to know about this game • Richards followed his quality start against the Rays with the poorest outing of his career, allowing six earned runs while lasting just 2/3 of an inning in an 8-2 loss at Yankee Stadium last Friday. • Colome's start will mark the 25th time this season that a rookie pitcher has taken the ball for the Rays -- tops in the Major Leagues. • Albert Pujols needs one round-tripper to assume sole possession of 16th place on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list. The Angels' first-baseman is currently tied with Yankee great Mickey Mantle with 536.

Angels draft GM Dipoto's son in 38th round BY ALDEN GONZALEZ / MLB.COM ANAHEIM -- Jerry Dipoto's seat in the Angels' Draft room was situated right next to Kathy Mair, who was responsible for phoning each of the team's selections to Major League Baseball. Every time a pick was ready, a tag with the amateur player's name would sit right next to Dipoto, ready for Mair to read out with the next pick. When it came time for Mair to call in the Angels' 38th-round selection, though, the tag was missing. "They hid it from my view so I couldn't know what they were doing, then they called the name," Dipoto said. "Then the whole room erupted. It was pretty cool."

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The Angels had just drafted Jonah Dipoto, a right-handed pitcher out of nearby Newport Harbor High School and, yes, the teenage son of the Angels' general manager. Over the last year and a half, Jonah played for multiple scout teams, including the Angels', so the organization's scouts were very familiar with him. They liked how he was progressing. And even though they knew he wouldn't sign -- Jonah is committed to UC San Diego, where he'll be a two-way player -- they wanted to select him anyway, as a reward for how far he's come and some added encouragement in his development. Angels scouting director Ric Wilson asked Dipoto if he'd be OK with it a week ago, and the Angels' GM rejected the idea because he didn't want to take an opportunity away from someone else. During Wednesday's lunch break, Wilson insisted, saying that area scout Rob Wilfong really liked Jonah and that selecting him wouldn't interfere with anything else. So, Dipoto relented. A few minutes later, he heard his son get selected with the 1,155th overall pick. "I will admit," Dipoto said, "it was a great moment for me, a great moment for Jonah, and I hope we have the opportunity to do it again in another three years." After Dipoto exchanged hugs and handshakes with the room, Wilson asked the logical question: "Who's calling Jonah?" "Well, I'm not calling him," Dipoto said. Wilfong made the call, just like he would've for any Southern California amateur, and Jonah let it go to voicemail. He was busy taking batting practice. "He worked his tail off all spring long and he has for the last couple years, and I didn't want to rob him of the opportunity to hear his name called on Draft day because I felt weird about it," Dipoto said. "He earned his chance, and like a lot of the kids he played with over the summer, got drafted today at some point and will not sign; they'll go off to college -- he's just one of the guys in that regard. He just happens to have been picked by the team where his dad is the GM." FROM YAHOO SPORTS

Angels-Rays Preview BY JEFF MEZYDLO Mike Scioscia knows Garrett Richards is a better pitcher than he's shown of late. Trying to remain confident amid his rough stretch, the Los Angeles Angels right-hander tries to bounce back from the worst start of his career Thursday night against the host Tampa Bay Rays.

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Soon after Richards (5-4, 4.14 ERA) gave up six runs before exiting with two outs in the first inning of Saturday's 8-2 loss to the New York Yankees, Scioscia showed support for his struggling hurler. ''Hopefully, he'll give us a better start next time," the Angels manager said. "He's too good a pitcher not to find it again." Scioscia is confident Richards can rediscover the form that allowed him to go 3-2 with a 2.29 ERA in his first six outings this year. He's posted a 7.91 ERA while splitting his last four starts. "I can't hang my head on this,'' Richards said. ''I'm just going through a rough patch right now. I'm not going to sit here and make excuses. It's baseball. This is the big leagues." The Angels (29-30) have reason to believe Richards can get back on track. He yielded five runs during a first inning he never finished in a 9-5 loss at Oakland last May 30, then went 9-2 with a 1.94 ERA over his next 15 starts before his season ended with a knee injury in August. "I went on a tear after that," Richards, 13-4 with a 2.61 ERA last year, told MLB's official website. "I know what I bring to the table." Richards is 2-1 despite a 5.02 ERA in three career starts against the Rays (32-28), who managed three runs in six-plus innings against him in a 7-3 Angels victory June 1. Los Angeles, however, has since been held to two or fewer runs four times while losing six of seven. The Angels scored both runs in the third of Wednesday's 4-2 defeat. Starting at third base after being held out the previous three games with a sore wrist, Evan Longoria homered and five pitchers held Los Angeles to seven hits as Tampa Bay won for the eighth time in 11 contests. ''To win games and be the type of team that we want to be, we've got to do that more times than not for sure," manager Kevin Cash said. Longoria is 1 for 8 against Richards. Teammate Alex Colome (3-2, 4.54) allowed seven hits and walked three but gave up one run over six innings at Seattle on Saturday, not getting a decision in the 2-1 loss. The right-hander has yielded two or fewer runs in three of his last four outings. His worst performance in that stretch came against Richards on June 1, when he allowed five runs on three homers over six innings. Albert Pujols and Mike Trout homered off Colome in that contest. Trout is batting .375 with six RBIs in eight career games at Tropicana Field.

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Angels draft Aaron Cox, the brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend BY MARK TOWNSEND As is the case every year, the middle and late rounds of the 2015 first-year player draft was filled with several players who have connections to MLB personnel or MLB lineage. Though not necessarily throwaway picks, most are done as a show of appreciation or good faith to loyal employees. But there are occasions where these off-the-radar prospects develop into major league talents, such as Mike Piazza did for the Los Angeles Dodgers after being drafted in the 62nd round in 1988. And there are occasions where they're viewed as upside prospects with a chance to contribute somewhere down the line. One such pick that seemingly fits the latter bill saw the Los Angeles Angels select Gannon University pitcher/infielder Aaron Cox in the 19th round on Wednesday. Yeah, that will put a smile on the franchise player's face. Trout has been dating Cox’s sister since Trout’s sophomore year of high school and for all intents and purposes the two players are like family. But again, this selection is about more than keeping it in the family. While obviously not on the level of picks like Mariano Rivera Jr. or Tate Matheny, the son of St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, Cox is a prospect who was on the radar of several teams and offers upside. Here's more from MLB.com: Cox just completed his junior year at Gannon University, in Pennsylvania, and is listed at 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds. At the plate, he batted .316/.389/.624 with eight homers and 32 RBIs in 44 games. On the mound, Cox went 5-5 with a 3.74 ERA in 10 starts, striking out 81 batters and walking 15 in 65 innings. The Angels listed him as a right-handed pitcher, which indicates they're going to try him out as a starter. If the pitching doesn't work out, perhaps he can make a transition to the field. That's always the upside in drafting all around talents. Of course, Cox will have his work cut out for him to earn whatever opportunities come his way next. He's in the door, but he'll receive no favors in a results and production based business. If he develops, the chances will come. If not, he'll go as most 19th round picks whose name fades as quickly as it appeared. And with little cost to the drafting team. It should also be noted the Angels selected Jonah Dipoto, the son of current general manager Jerry Dipoto, in the 38th round. Considering the elder Dipoto felt it necessary to release a statement on the selection, this might go down as one of those throwaway picks we noted earlier.

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FROM FOX SPORTS

Angels draft brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend in 19th round of MLB Draft BY JASON ROWAN The Los Angels Angles selected Aaron Cox, a pitcher/infielder out of Gannon University, with their pick in the 19th round of the Major League Baseball Draft. What makes the selection infinitely more interesting than most that come in the middling rounds of the draft is that the ballplayer picked just so happens to be the brother of Jessica Cox, the girlfriend of the team’s superstar, Mike Trout. Trout and Cox were high school sweethearts, so odds are good Trout knows one of the newest members of the Angels farm system quite well. So it wasn’t a surprise at all that he posted his congrats to Cox on Twitter. There is obviously no reason to cry foul at the pick. There always has been and always will be a fair share of nepotism in the MLB Draft: Teams drafting the manager’s son, a star player’s little brother, etc. Further, the fact that baseball’s annual draft consists of an absurd 40 excruciating rounds leaves plenty of room for teams to make selections on the most tangential reasons, if for no reason at all. This is exactly why teams will take a flier on a superstar football player — such as Jameis Winston and Russell Wilson (who actually has suited up for the Texas Rangers), to name a few — knowing full well that there is only a whisper of a chance that he will wind up playing baseball for them. Ultimately, the Angels selecting the brother of Trout’s girlfriend is nothing more than a draft oddity, an interesting aside to what, given its magnitude and the fact that most players selected will never make it to the big leagues, is mostly a humdrum affair. It’s stories like this one — along with how the Pittsburgh Pirates selected players with Seinfeldian names in the first two rounds of the draft — that provides ordinary fans — beyond the diehards — some interesting fodder to discuss. In other words, this is simply a case of “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” just switching out a surname that is also a kind of meat with another. You know… Trout.

Trout has no complaints about seven Royals being on-track for All-Star nods If the 2015 All-Star Game was today, Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout and Houston Astros catalyst Jose Altuve would be the only non-Kansas City Royals making up the position players in the A.L.'s starting lineup. Seven Royals - catcher Salvador Perez, first baseman Eric Hosmer, outfielder Lorenzo Cain, third baseman Mike Moustakas, shortstop Alcides Escobar, outfielder Alex Gordon and DH Kendrys Morales - are all the leading vote-getters at their respective positions. Despite the obvious push from Royals fans to get *every* player from their team on the roster, Trout doesn't have any issues with this, a perspective he shared with Jeff Fletcher of the O.C. Register on Tuesday: "The majority of those guys are having great years, so you can’t take it away from them. The fans have a right to vote, and they’re out there voting.”

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Trout's position runs contrary to those of Detroit Tigers pitcher David Price, who had some pointed things to say about the issue on Tuesday. Angels starter C.J. Wilson had a slightly different approach to the situation: "Every team has an equal opportunity to promote their players to the fans,” Wilson said. “Kansas City is obviously doing a better job of promoting their players to the fans than some other teams.” With a little over a month remaining until the Midsummer Classic in Cincinnati, it will be interesting to see just how many Royals make it into the American League starting lineup...if only to see how the baseball community would react.

Freese doesn't think tight hamstring will warrant D.L. stint Los Angeles Angels third baseman David Freese left Tuesday night's game against the Tampa Bay Rays early due to a hamstring issue, but he told Jeff Fletcher of the O.C. Register afterwards that he doesn't think it's a serious injury.

Said Freese after the game: "My hamstring has been grabbing a little bit lately. Something I’m managing. We’ll see how it is tomorrow. Wouldn’t even say it’s hurt, just been grabbing. Haven’t been playing with it long. Just felt it a little more tonight so came out. Don’t think I will go on DL." As Fletcher points out, the club might have to do something if Freese is sidelined even a few days, considering Taylor Featherston (the only other third baseman on the roster at the moment) is hitting just .094. FROM USA TODAY SPORTS

Los Angeles Angels draft younger brother of Mike Trout's girlfriend BY TED BERG Trout has been dating Cox’s sister since Trout’s sophomore year of high school and the two, (Millville High School baseball coach Roy) Hallenbeck said, are “like family, for lack of a better word.” They go on hunting and fishing trips together during the winter, and Aaron occasionally works out with Trout, who’s actually only three years older. In 2011, Cox was the winning pitcher in Millville High School’s first and only South Jersey title. In 2012, he became the first player to be awarded Trout’s former No. 1 jersey. Millville High was initially going to retire Trout’s number, but Trout preferred to give it to the team captain each season. It’s a solid strategy on the Angels’ part: Not only do you want to keep Mike Trout happy, but Trout oozes so much baseball talent that it probably makes sense to just draft everyone who has ever even known Mike Trout. Mike Trout’s crossing guard has at least as much upside as half the guys drafted in the late rounds of the draft.

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Heck, maybe just move the Angels to Millville, New Jersey and rename them “The Millville Trout,” and construct a roster entirely out of Mike Trout’s family.

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Angels Recall Kubitza From Triple-A, Cut Nieuwenhuis The Los Angeles Angels have recalled third baseman Kyle Kubitza from Triple-A Salt Lake and designated

outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis for assignment.

The moves were made before Wednesday night’s game against Tampa Bay.

Kubitza was scheduled to make his major league debut Wednesday, filling in for David Freese, who left

Tuesday night’s 8-2 win over the Rays with right hamstring tightness.

“Right now it looks like it’s something that’s very manageable,” Angels manager Mike Sciosica said of

Freese’s injury. “Hopefully, we’re talking a matter of days, but whatever it takes, it takes.”

Freese, hitting .239 with nine homers and 32 RBIs in 58 games this season, extended his hitting streak to

12 games Tuesday,

Nieuwenhuis hit .136 in 10 games with the Angels.